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Students prepare for a WOOLF trip in 1979 — one of the first trips after the program’s founding two years earlier. Photo courtesy of The Williams Record.

‘A different way of getting to know people’: Founders recount the beginnings of WOOLF

Emily Swope and Catherine Debenham December 7, 2022
An unsatisfactory orientation experience as a first-year student that led Laschever to imagine a different start for first-years at the College. In his senior year, he helped establish Williams Outdoor Orientation For Living as First-years (WOOLF), which is now a four-day wilderness adventure orientation program, alongside a group of students two years below him.
QSU, nonbinary students react to new gender-neutral bathrooms on campus, call for more trans inclusion

QSU, nonbinary students react to new gender-neutral bathrooms on campus, call for more trans inclusion

Luke Chinman and Emily Swope November 16, 2022
As a result of conversations with Queer Student Union last year, the College has changed the designation of some bathrooms on campus from gendered to gender-neutral.
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